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Reading the article, I’m not sure that they’re talking in that quote about Hitler, or about the possibility that he might be facing some opposition or reservations on the part of his “otherwise unmolested” voting citizenry.

“Eighty-nine and nine-tenths per cent of the German voters endorsed in yesterday’s plebiscite Chancellor Hitler’s assumption of greater power than has ever been possessed by any other ruler in modern times”-NYT

The NYT, however, was busy studiously ignoring the power of the guy in charge of the USSR and his recent forced collectivization program that had exterminated seven million or more Ukrainians, Kazakhs and others. Of course we should have declared war on Stalinist Russia at the earliest opportunity. :)

icr, I don’t think anyone’s saying that at that juncture, war was justified. But I think it’s uncontroversial to say that Hitler’s rise to dictatorship was of international concern. (Jonathan, that’s how I interpret the organization of the article — the “international concern” line is a lead-in to the next titled section.)

You’re right, icr. It’s an outrage how hypocritical the NYT was. With our sophisticated modern understanding of journalistic objectivity, you wouldn’t see the media bashing Hitler this way. It’s not fair and balanced.